[chc]

I think the pitch is that F# is halfway to Matlab without losing general programming power — a best of both worlds kind of thing.

[sliverstorm]

Yeah, Matlab seems to be pretty useless if you want to do anything besides pure math.

I mean, that's really all computers are at the core- math- but you know what I mean.

[Raphael]

I'd say computers are more applied math than pure math

[gaius]

Mathematica is more oriented towards pure maths (e.g. symbolic maniplation) and MATLAB more towards applied (numerical methods).

[konad]

At their core, computers are boolean logic, not arithmetic. Ironically, math is one of the things they are bad at, they are just quick.